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I’ve had some really nice successes using GPT-4 for coding, both in generating boilerplate code, and summarizing and explaining existing documentation. A few days ago, I decided to push things a little further, and see what kind of “understanding” stock...

This is the story as we have always told it, for over two thousand years. Not a word has been changed.
There once was a village that decided to task a young boy with guarding his village’s sheep. It was a crushingly boring task. The sheep essentially minded themselves, and as the day wore on, the child became desperate for attention....

I’ve been keeping busy the last year playing Classic Hardcore World of Warcraft. So far I’ve had one victory (a level 70 mage), and many deaths.
Here are some basic tips for staying alive.
The three things that will kill you: heights, caves, unknown content. Cultivate a healthy sense of acrophobia, claustrophobia, and neophobia....

In the previous post in this series, we discussed nominalizations (verbs that have been transformed into abstract nouns), and how converting abstract nouns into concrete verbs can improve your prose. In this post, we’ll get a little deeper into why that...